B. Van Groningen - Clara Hukom. Verhalen Uit Blangkedjerèn. Eerste Druk. [first Edn.].

Groningen, Wies & Joris van Groningen, 1995. small 8°. Orig. thin stiff wrappers. 56pp. With 2 plates after original photographs, of which 1 shows author's parents, from author's private collection, introd. by Edy Seriese, table of contents. A collection 7 short authentic stories, oral history of author's mother to her daughter with as subject european society at Blangkedjerèn, North Sumatra, racial tension, discrimination and feear of rioting by local Acehnese population. Author's mother, from Moluccan origin, war married to a dutch military of the Royal dutch East Indian Army, K.N.I.L. Posted in early 1920s at a remote army post in Blangkedjerèn region, Aceh. This first edn. privately published. Very good copy.